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Re:Army delays $22B augmented reality goggle program by darkerside on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:30PM (#28881259)
Sometimes the rocket fails but the astronaut makes it back (Apollo 13). Sometimes the goggles fail, and the soldier misjudges a drop and breaks his leg, or walks into a known blast radius and dies, or misidentifies and kills a civilian.

Either way, if this is worth doing -- and I agree with you that it's a big, big if -- it is worth doing right.

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Re:Army delays $22B augmented reality goggle program by jjk166 on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:46PM (#28882238)
Astronauts surviving a failure is a once in a generation event that gets memorialized forever in movies and literature. Soldiers' equipment failing is a Tuesday.

Increased situational awareness has value, but it is a clear case of diminishing returns. Exactly what the cutoff ought to be is debatable, but that the cutoff exists is certain.

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Re:Army delays $22B augmented reality goggle program by darkerside on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:12AM (#28929718)
And this is an argument for investing less? Just because you are personally normalized to something doesn't make it acceptable.
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